On Charity begins at home

Have always been a lover of art, but my tastes have been rather catholic..i.e not restricted to accepted well knowns..of course Escher ,Dali,gogin etc. rock... but here's another artist whose paintings I love...my sister... BTW for the discerning, the blog title is a link to more of her work..
{ the images( from top to bottom):Krishnakali;Bonding and Musicians by Oorna Datta(nee Bhattacharya)}

Omkara

finally Othello!!!....If Maqbool is any yardstick, then this for sure is one movie I'm so looking forward to ...wonder who's IAGO?...If it's Saif, then the movie will rock for sure already..Devgan as Othello, even better...waiting for the 28th!!!

My First Day at IIFT

Well has so far been pretty relaxed...got off the rajdhani today morning ..tootled to the hostel in an auto..settled in almost immediately..also met a senior, Suryakumar..whom i happened to know from Mumbai...so far so good...

On Surviving a Train Blast...

Yesterday Manali and I had gone to my cousins' place at Vasai Road for lunch...after a pleasantly lazy lunch, we started from Vasai Road at about 6:00 ish to head to Goregaon and further to Inorbit, where Saili, Manali's younger sis had some shopping to do...

So we boarded a Churchgate fast and detrained to change for a slow train at Borivli...

At Borivli, we waited on platform 4 as the slow local from churchgate filtered into the platform at about 6:20...we observed as droves of people got off, and i mean thousands...luckily, we were going in the opposite direction which meant "kam bheed"...we boarded the same local as it was now a 6:21 churchgate slow local...only the local never left borivli station...a few minutes later there was an almost deafening report, and distinctly perceptible shock wave...As Manali and I were standing near the door, we promptly got off to see a huge ball of smoke emanating from the compartment right next to us....We merged into the crowd that steadily and quickly, but without panic exited Borivli station...
Let me just add that both of us escaped unhurt...by god's grace!...but in excess of a hundred people were not as lucky as us...thirty of them died on the spot...

What gets me is not that it could so easily have been us,but rather the somber cogitation that somehow these terrorists probably got the timing of the bombs wrong...As Manali and I were talking about it,had they trigerred their device a few minutes earlier they would probably have killed thousands and not hundreds...the bone chilling reality is that borivli may probably have been one of the more severe blasts but from a first hand experience of the event my gut instinct is that it was probably their intention to inflict far worse damage at borivli and that they just plain botched the timing...again thank god!!!

P.S: Mumbai as usual was back on its feet the next day...terrorists are going to have to learn the hard, humiliating and bitter reality that its easier to scare a mumbaikar(nowadays) with rains than with bombs!!......SALAAM MUMBAI!!

mood INDIGO!!!

Blame the title of this pos on the two teams who made it to the world cup finals

Someone should shoot whoever it is that prints TV listings.... I thought the world cup finals would start at 12:30 but it actually started at 11:30 p.m....thankfully, only missed 10 minutes of it and not an hour!!...unfortunately i missed zizou's penalty and the run up to it...

me supporting france...although Italy seems pretty impressive right now as i type this post at half time... the scores are even but Italy have had atleast three shots on goal...

Well here's hoping 'Le bleus' triumph over the Azzuris....

Manali And Me

This is on my birthday at my place ...the scars on my hand were from my latest accident on holi eve...:)